Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Talkie-talkie." To find furnishings for the new African Hall soon to be opened at the American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan, Dr. Morton C. Kahn led an expedition into South America. Almost 200 years ago, African slaves in Dutch Guiana revolted, went into the bush to establish an Africo-South American civilization. Today the tribes live in thatched huts, cut designs into their flesh. Cowrie shells from the East Indies are used to adorn amulets as in Africa. The tribes speak "talkie-talkie," a mixture of Dutch, English, Portuguese, French and African. The Boni tribe in French Guiana...
...coastal Negro dialect of South Carolina, part Huguenot, part English, part African. Sample: W'en oona duh de-dey, duh dee' duh un de-dey (When you are there, the deer is not there...
...subsequent, demoralization. Last week the industry, statistically, had recovered not a bit from this last collapse. Stocks of copper in the Americas were at a new high of 605,000 tons. Shipments (deliveries to consumers) had gained slightly over the previous month, were still behind production. African production was running high. The price was at 9½?, did not seem secure. But by the end of the week it had jumped to 12? and producers still showed no inclination to sell in large amounts...
...atrophies, and disaster dogs him. His wife runs away with an-other man, his two daughters come to grief because he does not know how to help them, does not notice till too late that they need his help. Left finally alone, he goes mad, sits fingering the old African drum his father brought back from the bloody jungle...
...Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah, the Elect of God, the Light of the World, Power of Trinity I, Emperor qf Abyssinia. For his spouse, the Queen of Queens, their Coronation was almost a coming out party. She is a chunky, chocolate amazon, he a small, slender, olive-skinned African Disraeli who astutely keeps her hidden. But they have much in common. Both looked on with glistening-eyed approval as "The Feast of Raw Meat" began. Lowing oxen had been driven into the courtyard of the palace until it was almost full. His Majesty's loyal soldiers were...